LOL! Ya, we had some overly optimistic carriers alright. Trying to get T1's at cell towers in the middle of cornfield was a challenge. But wait, it gets better - E911 came along and we had to get addresses for the tower - lol!
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Robert West <robert.w...@just-micro.com> wrote: > When I was a Qwest Install Manager, I had a folder that I called, "Never > Gonna Happen". Mostly very rural areas with zero facilities yet the sales > department were very optimistic. > > The best one that comes to mind was a company called Austin Powder. They > make explosives so they tend to locate their facilities WAY out in the > middle of nowhere. "A T-1 out in the desert, 50 miles from any phone line? > SURE!" > > Bob- > > > -----Original Message----- > From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On > Behalf Of RickG > Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 6:20 PM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] What if you can't get a T3? > > In my previous life as an AT&T Cellular switch manager, we had > hundreds of T1's & T3's ordered that never came in - yes, I mean > never. And we practically had a blank check! > -RickG > > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Kristian Hoffmann <kh...@fire2wire.com> > wrote: >> After about a year of getting the same response from AT&T after multiple >> order requests at different locations across our network, the guy in >> charge of building out fiber for the region called and said "what in the >> world are you guys doing?!?" He ended up giving us the location of a >> few fiber terminals in the area. We found the ones closest to our >> network, made an agreement with a tenant nearby, and did a wireless PtP >> to connect it to our network. >> >> Moral of the story, we were shooting in the dark until we had an "in" in >> the right department at AT&T. >> >> On a related note, does anyone have an experience with Charter's fiber >> services? >> >> >> -- >> Kristian Hoffmann >> System Administrator >> kh...@fire2wire.com >> http://www.fire2wire.com >> >> Office - 209-543-1800 | Fax - 209-545-1469 | Toll Free - 800-905-FIRE >> >> >> On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 22:33 -0500, Roger Howard wrote: >>> Quick alert to those who are not aware... back when I was running my >>> business on T1 lines, I just assumed that when I was ready, I could >>> order a T3 and upgrade my bandwidth. Not so. >>> >>> Just because you can get a T1 doesn't mean you can get a T3 without >>> huge buildout costs. I was quoted $400,000 dollars to upgrade to a T3. >>> I managed to get around it because otherwise AT&T would have had to >>> install a high count copper line down my road to be able to keep >>> offering POTS service here, so I got lucky, and had a free install. >>> But you may not be that fortunate. >>> >>> I just thought if I posted this, it might give some people a heads up >>> to start planning for more bandwidth when you're coming close to >>> needing t3 type capacity. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Roger >>> >>> >>> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- >>> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >>> http://signup.wispa.org/ >>> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- >>> >>> WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org >>> >>> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >>> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >>> >>> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >>> >> >> >> >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
